In 2015, a hacker named Phineas Fisher hacked Hacking Team – the Italy-based spyware companionship that sells spying software to law enforcement agencies worldwide – as well as exposed some 500 gigabytes of internal information for anyone to download.
Now, the Castilian government believe that they convey arrested Phineas Fisher, who was non simply behind the embarrassing hack of Hacking Team, but too hacked the UK-based Gamma International, some other highly secretive companionship which sells the pop spyware called "FinFisher."
During an investigation of a cyber assail against Sindicat De Mossos d'Esquadra (SME), Spain's Catalan police line union, police line inward Espana convey arrested 3 people, 1 of which detained inward the metropolis of Salamanca is suspected of beingness Fisher, according to local paper ARA.
The cyber assail was carried out inward May concluding yr when Fisher announced via his ain Twitter trouble concern human relationship that he had hacked the SME as well as too published the personal information of over 5,500 police line officers online.
The incident attracted worldwide attending afterward Fisher posted a detailed tutorial video on how he hacked SME as well as how he stole the data.
On Tuesday evening, Spain's National Police Corps detained a yoke inward Barcelona, suspected of beingness behind the SME attack, as well as 1 someone inward Salamanca, suspected every bit Phineas Fisher who exposed the information stolen from SME.
However, hours afterward the intelligence of the arrests as well as raids went public, someone using Phineas Fisher's e-mail address said the police line convey got it all wrong.
"I mean value the Mossos simply arrested some people that retweeted the link to their personal info, or perchance simply arrested some activisty/anarchisty people to pretend they are doing something," someone claiming to survive Phineas Fisher said inward an e-mail shared past times an anonymous intermediary amongst Motherboard.The hacker too said he wanted the media to study that he was non inward prison theatre or nether custody "so at that topographic point does non outset a bunch of theories closed to [his] disappearance."
Well, it's hard to say, at this moment, if Phineas Fisher is arrested or someone simply trying to mislead the investigation.
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